“Oh, mine? Why, mine’s Brown.”
“Brown!” re-echoed Charlie, with a tinge of disappointment in his tone.
“Don’t you like it?” asked Miss Agatha Brown with a smile.
“Oh, it will do for the present,” laughed Charlie.
“Well, I don’t mean to keep it all my life. I’ve spent to-day, Mr. Merceron, in spying out your house. Nettie Wallace and I ventured quite near. It’s very pretty.”
“Rather dilapidated, I’m afraid.”
“What’s the time, Mr. Merceron?”
“Half-past six. Oh, by Jove!”
“Well? Afraid of seeing poor Agatha?”
“I should see nobody but you, if you were here. No. I forgot that. I’ve got to meet someone at the station at a quarter-past seven.”